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Webster 1913 Edition


Bespawl

Be-spawl′

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Verb.
T.
To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.
[Obs.]
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bespawl

BESPAWL'

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Verb.
T.
[be and spawl.] To soil or make foul with spittle.

Definition 2024


bespawl

bespawl

English

Verb

bespawl (third-person singular simple present bespawls, present participle bespawling, simple past and past participle bespawled)

  1. (transitive) To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle.
    • 1885, United States Congress, Congressional edition:
      [...] as workwomen could use the respirators only by turns, and besides they had an aversion to apply to their mouths an object which was bespawled by others, [...]

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